one of our very own, harriet tubman. i was like, all right. we had the signing of the suffrage coin happen. i was not able to make that. but tubman was referenced again. there is incongruous -- these platitudes about tubman. and then she should not be on paper money. i believe in prayer. also believe in action. and, the first week of the impeachment inquiry in the house, the hearings were scheduled on wednesday and on friday. on that thursday, you were there with me, the house decided to have a screening of the film " harriet" at the capital in the evening. steny hoyer got up and spoke. then kevin mccarthy got up and spoke. he said, i want everyone to know there is bipartisan support for harriet tubman to be on the urrency. art of our job collectively is to remind our leaders. i did over 500 hill visits, meetings, before it became a park. we have to have a similar movement like that. that goodwill ought to translate into good action. that is where we are. feel very encouraged. i am thrilled that the president had those wonderful words to say ab

to operate the home of harriet tubman. in her role, karen hill shares core values with visitors who two of the property --tour the property. she also established tubman's home as a national historic park. please help me with a warm welcome to karen hill. [applause] karen: good evening, everyone. good evening, everyone. thank you for coming tonight. it is such a pleasure to see you all in attendance tonight. hillt to thank ms. karen and i look forward to a brilliant conversation. as elizabeth said i am the curator of the house here at woodrow wilson's final home. after the presidency he moved into this home from the white house in march of 1921 and lived here until 1924. two years ago with the leadership of the national trust of historic preservation and in concert with the woodrow wilson house decided it was extremely important and urgent to address woodrow wilson's legacy on race by exploring more african american history of the era and that era was preceded wilson's presidency and to highlight womens history in particular

later in life there was no help there at all for harriet tubman. harriet beecher stowe husband helped a number of times in fact he said to her you are not harriet beecher stowe and he encouraged her to use that as her signature which she did he was supportive all along. the other was a tyrant he was resentful and tried to block for every chance she had so she had no help. but to use henry wilson senator she also worked with local congressman she was from massachusetts she had a good rapport with them. so they helped her a lot and went into see them but was so persistent with three warehouses full of things so he came around eventually. so sarah is widowed at age 39 never marries again. the only person that helped her was the man who eventually bought her book, her magazine. and he was supportive and helpful along the way but she could've went somewhere else and had another publisher that was just as supportive. helpful not attracting but basically that is what it was. >> you already answered my question so i will pursue it by changing it a little bi

the five women very briefly harriet tubman who took her role primarily in the antebellum. and actually 1849 freed herself some call it self liberation and then to come back again and again to guide the people north. most people agree there are 70 through 80 people she freed over the teen years and extraordinary thing by anyone's administration harriet beecher stowe was a writer but not until she wrote a medical tom's cabin that she blew open the whole story of slavery but with a compelling narrative she brought alive the characters of the book some favorable and some not so it's like none other in the past over 100,000 copies and it started off in a magazine and it had so much popularity that it was turned into a book. the next person want to talk about is a poet in the early 18 sixties and she came to washington and was not shy about his ability to do great things. so while he was off with an early version of the red cross and watch the union soldiers to do their military things. and to be surrounded by union soldiers and was struck by two things. one was the fact they we

next, karen hill of the harriet tubman house talks about harriet tubman's lesser-known role as an activistn the women's suffrage movement. the president woodrow wilson house hosts this conversation as part of a series commemorating the 100th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote. elizabeth: good evening. i am the executive director at the woodrow wilson house. it is truly my pleasure to alcome you to the first of series of speaking events we are going to have on a suffrage series. the wilson house, if you have not been here before, is part of the national trust for historic preservation. wilson and his

next, karen hill of the harriet tubman house talks about harriet tubman's lesser-known role as an activistresident woodrow wilson house in washington, d.c. hosts this conversation as part of a series commemorating the 100th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote. elizabeth: welcome, good evening. my name is elizabeth carter, and i am the executive director at the woodrow wilson house. it is truly my pleasure to welcome you to the first of a series of speaking events that we are going to have on a suffrage series. so the wilson house, if you have , not been here bere

i recently watched the movie "harriet" and highly recommend it to my colleagues, but harriet tubman didn't stop her fight for freedom and equality after the civil war ended. she took up the cause of women's suffrage and worked tirelessly until she was 90 years old to help women get the right to vote. we celebrate her life today because she spent a lifetime bending the arc of our moral universe toward justice. the best way we can honor her and the countless others who have risked their lives for our country and our democracy is to continue the work of improving our democracy so that it works better for the next generation. that is what the for the people act is all about. i urge my republican colleagues, i implore them, for a group of people that i know believe in freedom, that they allow us to have this bill come up for a vote, to ensure that people have the cherished freedom to vote. thank you, madam president. i yield the floor. mr. bennet: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from colorado. mr. bennet: i appreciate the opportunity to talk about this bill. i want to thank

enslaved people, men like frederick douglass and henry box brown, women like sojourner truth and harriet tubman with slavery. they knew personally, intimately, what its evils were and what that felt like. and by telling what their lives under slavery had been like, they brought a kind of authenticity, a kind of moral energy to their lectures. that people like garrison couldn't possibly offer. garrison only knew slavery from a distance, and he's white. he couldn't speak to slavery like frederick douglass could. a second weapon of the abolitionis abolitionists, and arguably, their most important, was literature. abolitionists flood the streets and the mails with a massive outpouring of pamphlets, leaflets, newspapers, sermons, broadsides. in 1835 alone, abolitionists sent more than 1 million pieces of mail through the postal system. and what's in this abolitionist literature are calls for slaveholders to repent, to free their slaves. it's calling on nonslaveholders to join the abolitionist movement. and the literature is filled with condemnations of slavery itself as immoral, as unjust. it descri

robert plumb discusses how harriet tubman, clara barton, harriet beecher stowe and other women affected the civil war. and serena's avon provides a history of the 1770 boston massacre. find more information on your program guide or online at booktv.org ...... readers. >> good evenin co-owner of community bookstore. [applause] shouldn't sit ride me about this crowd. we are thrilled to welcome rebecca solnit, for her new book reflections of my nonexistence. she will be in conversation with leslie jamison, please note there will not be a signing after the event, she arrived early to sign each and every one of your books. [applause] a little bit about her she's the author of 20 books including a field guide to getting lost, the faraway nearby, of paradise built in hell, rivers, shadows, and wanderlust. a history of walking she's also the author of extreme things to me on feminism, activism, the current climate crisis. a product of the california public education system from kindergarten to graduate school. she is a regular contributor to the guardian. leslie jamison is the author of the "ne

robert plumb discusses how harriet tubman, clara barton, harriet beecher stowe and other women affectedd serena's avon provides a history of the 1770 boston massacre. find more information on your program guide or online at booktv.org ...... readers. >> good evenin co-owner of community bookstore. [applause] shouldn't sit ride me about this crowd. we are thrilled to welcome rebecca solnit, for her new book reflections of my nonexistence. she will be in conversation with leslie jamison, please

author robert plum looks at how harriet tubman, clara barton, harriet beecher stowe and other women affected the civil war. rebecca sol din, and we take a look at recent books about the trump administration. find more information on your program guide or on line at booktv.org. ..

author robert plum looks at how harriet tubman, clara barton, harriet beecher stowe and other women affected the civil war. rebecca sol din, and we take a look at recent books about the trump administration. find more information on your program guide or on line at booktv.org. .. >> can you can you mere without in the mic? no. without the mic? also no. alexis is the deputy cto of new york city and runs a policy experiment lab, trying to get vendors to compete for who can devise the best programs to improve social welfare of the citizens of new york. an adjunct professor of tech media and communications at columbia university and spent a couple of decade studying the issues as a doctoral student and then as a member of the staff at the u.n. mission of the state department, and also just speaking deeply about them which is so clear from the book, which i really admire. so quick round of applause for alexis. [applause] >> just jump right in. this book is about what you call net states. maybe you just want to start by taking a minute and telling us what those are and why we needed a new category

harriet tubman, claire bartman, harriet beecher stowe and other women affected the civil war. .. remarkable moment in 1797 for many reasons not least of which that the group offered toast to the constitution, the president and the vice president and to the congress and then to our illustrious neighbor. he truly had retired from public service. his words and response are words that i think of often. i can entertain no doubt of it being so if all of us act the part of good citizens. he included himself in that occasion. he too was now a citizen. but he was a a citizen of that came of both rights and duties, particularly in the next sentence say, do i need to act to maintain to constitution to support the law and guard independence. as you will sigh duty he took seriously and did not retire from public service so much take a different approach to it. tonight we hear about a wonderful book which i heard in prepublication stage which i read in my vacation home on christmas break and daunted by how good the book was. i'm excited for you to hear about it tonight but we have upcoming eve

goes back to the belly of the beast. 19 times, harriet tubman. david walker appealed the colored citizens of the world. he is a dead man nine years later in boston. he told the truth what a bounty on his head. that is my kind of brother. willing to tell that kind of truth, the vicious forms of evil in this society, not just white supremacy, but of course it spills over, to indigenous peoples, subordination of women, working people, anti-jewish, anti-arab, anti-catholic, all of those part of our history, but white supremacy sitting at the center. and so frederick douglass of course, he is the most eloquent ex-slave in the history of the modern world. by eloquence i'm talking cicero and defined eloquence, wisdom speaking in the face of catastrophe with a bounty on his head. there is simply nobody like him. it is true he does become part of the republican party and part of the american imperial machinery, vis-a-vis the relation to haiti and the dominican republic and my critique, it is hard to be on fire for a long time. he had 30 years to live. mal

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and then author robert plumb looks at how harriet tubman, and other women impacted the civil war. also this evening rebecca's soulmate recounts her journey to becoming a writer and feminist and eileen discusses white-collar drug addiction. and we take th a lookup of booktv.org. author michael strahan discussing his book, the american dream is not dead. >> good evening everybody, we will get started. welcome, welcome to the american enterprise institute, i'm the director of socia social and cul studies, is my great pleasure to welcome you to a discussion of an important new book by my friend and colleague michael strahan. michael is a director of economic studies at a.i. and is widely published scholar in finance and many other areas. his new book is an exceptionally clear and broad overview of the state of an american economic life. the actual conditions we face, the trends over recent decades, how those relate to the dark stories that we hear in our politics about the conditions americans have experienced and where our prospects are, he finds that things are much better than the

superintendents of women's rights national historical park and harriet tubman national historical park over in auburn. on behalf of the national parks service it is my pleasure to welcome all of you here to your part. before we start, i want to ask that everybody please silence of their cell phones so that our camera crew does not get disrupted. it is my delight to introduce you to our speaker dr. laura free. professor associate of history at hobart and william smith colleges. her work focuses on the interconnections of gender, race and politics in 19th-century united states. her most recent book, and the books on which this program is based is titled "suffrage reconstructed: race and civil rights. " please join me in welcoming dr. laura free. [applause] prof. free: good afternoon, thank you. i am really honor to be here today. it is always a great thrill for a historian and of suffrage to speak at seneca falls. i would like to acknowledge that we are on the traditional lands of the hopi nations people and pay my respect to the elders, past and present. i would like to thank you for in

and then author robert plumb looks at how harriet tubman, and other women impacted the civil war.also this evening rebecca's soulmate recounts her journey to becoming a writer and feminist and eileen discusses white-collar drug addiction. and we take th a lookup of booktv.org. author michael strahan discussing his book, the american dream is not dead. >> good evening everybody, we will get started. welcome, welcome to the american enterprise institute, i'm the director of socia social and cul studies, is my great pleasure to welcome you to a discussion of an important new book by my friend a

liberal or integrationist, but he was a strong race man, and this idea goes back to ida b wells, harriet tubman, sojourner truth, w. e. b. dubois, malcolm x, angela davis, these race em -- these race men and race women wanted racial justice and didn't just have one, set way to do it. so walters is willing to talk with people with whom he disagrees, but is also willing to adopt multiple, overlapping strategies. he wants a big tent. he is reminiscent of aspects of what malcolm x talked about who wanted a big tent, a black united front to organize for black issues. briefly, and then i will open this up, ron walters and barack obama. walters writes about obama. ron walters passed away of cancer in 2010. he is around for the 2008 election and he writes his weekly column on black politics. he is both impressed by barack obama, but also disappointed that obama refuses to listen and understand that his job as president is to be open to a black agenda along with white agendas and other agendas. that is what he is disappointed by. he realizes barack obama is president of the united states, but in his cri

only ones who really goes is tubman, she does that in the sea islands with the encouragement of radical republicans. she actually leads a military operation. if you see harriet they have a low clip at the end of the movie where she rides into or rolls in on the county river to a very densely populated slave people and brings them out. brings out 700. she was actually paid like an army major, later she drove pension from the united states army. she was the director of that mission even though she worked with aye officer a radical republican, montgomery. he deferred to her, she said to him who should be bring in to support you she said it bring in montgomery. they all played a role. especially in the years before the war went lucy stone, stanton, are major players in forming the republican party, very prominent republicans. simon that's the perfect last question, the next lecture there check them up the in congress today. she couldn't set that up better. [applause] if you would please remain seated, so i can get her to the signing table, since she seems to be a little harder to walk out. all get to a 30 minute. >> we will look at some authors who look at disea

next, karen hill of the harriet tubman house talks about harriet tubman's lesser-known role as an activist in the women's suffrage movement. the president woodrow wilson house hosts this conversation as part of a series commemorating the 100th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote. elizabeth: welcome, good evening. my name is elizabeth carter, and i am the executive director at the woodrow wilson house. it is truly my pleasure to welcome you to the first of a series of speaking events that we are going to have on a suffrage series. the wilson house, if you have not been here before, is part of the national trust for historic preservation. wilson and his wife edith lived in this house. they turd